To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Public offices were not made for private convenience.